Akagawa became the fifteen player in All-Star history to toss three perfect innings and the first player in Swallows' history to toss three perfect innings during an All-Star game.

Central League pitchers also hurled nineteen consecutive shutout innings between the 2nd inning of Game 1 and the 2nd inning of Game 2. That is the second longest streak in All-Star history (the PL holds the record with twenty-five consecutive shutout innings in 1952).

Yoshinobu Takahashi (Yomiuri) became the first outfield in All-Star history to commit two errors in one game: a fielding error in the 3rd inning and a fielding error in the 4th inning. Source: Sponichi 7/24/2012

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Kazuhiro Hatakeyama (Yakult) hit a home run during Game 3 on Monday and...

...now has two career All-Star homers, which is good for second on Yakult's All-time list (behind Roberto Petagine's three and tied with Norichika Aoki and Alex Ramirez's two a piece).

...gave the Swallows eighteen All-Star home runs.

...made him the first Yakult to hit an All-Star home run out of the clean-up spot.

...made him the first player from the Tohoku region to hit a home run in an All-Star game taking place at a stadium in the Tohoku region (out of four games, three in Sendai and one in Iwate).

...gave him his first Tohoku region home run in twenty games (regular season and All-Star games).

A third year junior high school baseball player from Kamaishi, Iwate caught Hatakeyama's home run. Source: Nikkan Sports 7/24/2012

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Dai-Kang Yoh (Nippon Ham) hit his second All-Star home run of the year on Monday and became the seventh player to hit two or more home runs in his first All-Star Series (first in Fighters' franchise history). He also joined Isao Harimoto (1962), Toshizo Sakamoto (1972), Katsuo Osugi (1972), Junichi Kashiwabara (1982), and Atsunori Inaba (2011) as the only players in Fighters' franchise history to hit two home runs during an All-Star Series (franchise high).

Yoh is the seventh player in franchise history to win an All-Star MVP and the third in franchise history to win an All-Star MVP in his first series (behind Harimoto in 1960 and Osugi in 1967).

Kiyoshi Nakahata may not have wanted Miura (Yokohama) to pitch three innings on Monday.

When reporters informed him that Miura got hit in the 3rd inning, he replied, "I thought they decided on two innings. There is [Miura's] next regular season game to think about so [I wanted him to pitch] as few innings as possible..."

Hitoki Iwase (Chunichi) did not make an appearance in any of the three All-Star games this year (discomfort in left elbow). The last player that made the roster but did not play in any All-Star games: Kazuo Fukumori in 2007. Source: Sports Hochi Osaka 7/24/2012

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TV Ratings for the All-Star Series...

Game 1, TV Asahi - Kanto region: 10.8%, Kansai region: 13.5%

Game 2, TV Asahi - Kanto region: 10.8%, Kansai region: 12.4%

Game 3, Fuji TV - Kanto region: 9.6%

Game 1 last year was broadcast on TBS and pulled in ratings of 13.0% in Kanto and 16.9% in Kansai.

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Kanto region, TBS - 18.9%, topped out at 35.8% at 10:04pm
Nagoya region - 27.4%, topped out at 39.6% at 9:55pm and 9:57pm
Northern region of Kyushu - 44.4%, topped out at 62.6% at 10:07pm and 10:08pm (around the time Akiyama was tossed into the air).